Letter from Samuel Langhorne Clemens to Edwin Thomas Booth

by: Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910; Mark Twain

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Topics: Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893, Correspondence, Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910, Abernethy Manuscripts Collection

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Language: english-handwritten

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Transcriber: Joseph Watson (ed.)
Todd Sturtevant
Virginia Faust

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Saturday AM

I have called to pay
my respects, Mr. Booth, + apologize for my [strikethrough] piece [/strikethrough] piece of supernatural stupidity - of last night (for I am sore about it yet, + righteously ashamed); but do not hes- itate to excuse yourself if you [strikethrough] [–] [/strikethrough]

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shall so prefer. I have traveled about the country lecturing enough to know how perfectly justifiably one loathes the intruding stranger who breaks in upon his needed repose + his prized seclusion. Truly Yours Samuel L. Clemens (âMark Twainâ)